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Grouchy Old Guy

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New England observer of this absurd existence. Ham radio newbie. He/him. ‘that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.’ -Erich Fromm

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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farm Aid 2026 - amazing show by all involved!! Support our farmers!!
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’d like to see talk of strikes at the munitions plants where the military buys its arsenal. Are those workers super well-paid and happy with the results of the life’s work?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I heard a report that the US plans to stop all air travel into and out of Iran by strong arming nations where their flights land. I couldn’t help but think of how the US tried to fence in Japan in the 30s and how they reacted.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When an ‘artist’ like Sheeran - who is apparently a multi-millionaire x100- caves to financial pressure, they are no longer selling art. F him.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When a celebrity shows you directly who they are, believe them. F Ed Sheeran.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Now they are going to use domino theory on AI development, saying if we don’t create an AI that can destroy human life then the Chinese will do it first.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think Dr Sam Beckett failed the assignment somewhere along the way in this timeline. #quantumleap
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the many things I resent about American media is their forcing betting terminology and ‘analysis’ on the viewer.
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The Socialist Dad @thesocialistdad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Opposing genocide is not a left vs right thing You either condemn the worst crime in human history or, you're a cunt
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Dallas sex workers, esp those catering to closeted gay men, are gonna have a great week. Kudos to them! Soak the bastards!!
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Aristocrats done and dance on the backs of the workers holding the floor while one of the workers fists breaks through the floor. Text reads “From the Depths.”
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Let’s stop pretending that the US military is out there ‘protecting us’- they are protecting corporate and wealthy interests, while participating in the destruction of other humans’ lives. Deploying the military is harmful to everyone involved.
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
For $15, I got a used DVD player. It was so liberating to watch a movie with no interruptions. No ads! Nobody trying to sell me dubious meds with more side effects than benefits. I can get DVDs at the library anytime I want! How did anyone ever convince me paid subscriptions WITH ADs were okay?!
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's funny how Abdul El-Sayed should code as your pretty typical jock-turned-Type A prep-turned politician but because he's brown and supports Palestine he's destabilizing the system
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Expect the GOP to go full Homer Stokes as more progressives win primaries and gen elections.
Homer Stokes from O Brother Where Art Thou
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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 05/08/2026
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's definitely a silver lining rather than a ray of sunshine, but I do think Americans lucked out that, when fascism came to America, it came in the form of a cartoonishly corrupt, feeble-minded, and self-serving reality TV show star rather than a JD Vance or a Tom Cotton
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#WhereIsMitch
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Scarcity of food, housing, medical care, is a political choice. Don’t forget this fact of modern life. Outrage is a proper response to this fact.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Grilling in the back yard last evening, enjoying the views.
A dragonfly on a twig.Blue flowers.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is you in meta’s pervert glasses
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 18/07/2026
James Cameron's Aliens was released 40 years ago today. 40 years of Burke.
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Ripley to Burke: Which Species is Worse?
Alt: Ripley to Burke: Which Species is Worse?
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We live in a timeline when The Dead Zone book’s main character could have taken a shot in 2015, the candidate could have grabbed a baby as a human shield, and the candidate then goes on to win twice.
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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“I don't get political” translates to “This isn't hurting me yet and I don't care that it's hurting you.”
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Isn’t it about damn time for a ‘Darth Vader comes to his senses and throws the Emperor down a pit’ moment, don’t you?
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Barron W. Tramp @barronwtramp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Universal Healthcare isn't far left Prosecuting rapists isn't far left Criticizing politicians and policies isn't far left Demanding laws for equality & civil rights isn't far left None of it is far enough If someone considers any of these ideas to be far left then they're definitely far right
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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy Birthday, Mavis Staples!! #UrbanViewMornings
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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I think the story of this cup could be ‘most corrupt games in the most corrupt country’
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Corrupt VAR BS against Egypt calling that goal back
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Schrödinger’s senator
Mitch McConnell
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Will it be known in history as the Truck Nuts Administration?
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Mandragore བོད་ @mandragore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🙏 Lobga Rangzen 🙏 youtu.be/odCryWquDes
youtu.be
Lobga Rangzen Self-Immolation Message
YouTube video by International Campaign for Tibet
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
When we remake the government (and yes, we absolutely must), we should develop a new SCOTUS by asking Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who she would like to work with, and fill the court that way.
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Jeff From Ohio @jefffromohio.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
54 years ago today, we lost Alex Kintner. If he had survived, he’d be 66 years old and his mother would be 135.
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Jaws
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I never grooved with the Guilded Age literature or aesthetic. I guess the gardens are nice, but so clearly derived from a European sense of making nature behave in straight lines. (Touring The Mount, where Edith Wharton lived for a time)
Part of the gardens at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s ‘cottage’
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Day 3 at Solid Sound in N Adams, MA. Such a great vibe!
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 26/06/2026
It's important to note the things that centrists DO magically find the will to take action on.
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Jim Fusilli @jimfusilli.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Twenty-eight years ago, I interviewed Billy Bragg about “Mermaid Avenue,” an album of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to music Bragg and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy composed. I never saw them perform “Mermaid Avenue” - but I will tonight at the Solid Sound festival in North Adams, MA. tinyurl.com/2fuzaezu
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In the Words of Woody Guthrie - WSJ
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Gang of Four just took the main stage
Gang of Four on the main stage at Solid Sound, a good ways backthe whole stage and golden hour setting sun
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Billy Bragg at Solid Sound singing There Is Power In a Union
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Grouchy Old Guy @grouchyold.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Will Mitch McConnell show up next week like this?
The resurrected Hound from Game of Thrones.
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Niera 🏳️‍⚧️ @mywifecallsmeacat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Every FIFA world cup team has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible by letting Iran's team win and force the president to hand them the trophy.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine.
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